Why add the color of skin of the couple?
I have 7 siblings. My oldest sibling is 39 and the youngest is 18, I'm the second youngest at 22.
Big families are just the best. Both my parents worked (my mum retired last year) had two nannies growing up. Contraception is also a sin.
Not sure why this is a "thing" at all. Four kids, big deal, who cares what color they are.
Fact: LDS (Mormon) families believe that if they don't have as many children as possible, there are souls that won't be able to get in to the world. It's not unusual for Mormon families to have anywhere between 5-12 kids.
4 is nothing.
By the way, this is the video in question...
Kuddos to them, having the energy to do that with already 3 kids and another one on the way.
Ah yes, the "resources running out" bullshit, you do realize that everytime someone makes a panic about only having so much fresh water/oil they fail to factor in the rate in which we find more fossil fuels/build water treatment plants. It's short sighted. It's literally only saying if we keep doing this forever bad stuff will happen! But, it fails to understand that we DON'T stay stagnant, we develop better, cheaper and more efficient technology, we reproduce more heavily when resources are prominent (and most first world countries actually have negative population growth ignoring immigration and emigration).
No this is the same foolishness that said the Earth is flat, that we would die if we traveled too fast, that is behind anti-vaccination and other anti-science attitudes. It's small thinking without the understanding of the depth of human ingenuity and industry.
Why is them being white relevant?
This is where the issue of global warming is coming in though. The question is if humanity can adapt to the coming changes as fast as they are happening. Which is very doubtful at this point. And oil is actually an issue, it is becoming more and more costly to recover and very dangerous for the enviroment.
Having children is selfish, that in itself is not morally wrong though (everything I do is selfish). But don't claim to be the fucking savior of our species, we do NOT need more humans. It is your own selfish choice and this is often reflected in how parents phrase it: "I really want/need a child". I always thought putting life into this world without its consent is a strange need.....but to each their own.
Are people still surprised than unprotected sex can result in pregnancy?“We had not planned on having any more children after our three, but we seem to have a talent for making babies,” Andrea told BuzzFeed Life.
Other than that, I don't really see an issue.
The reason why it says white in the headline is because you usually don't expect white families to have big families AND you probably wouldn't have clicked the article if it just said couple cant stop having kids as you would've assumed they were minorities/immigrants.
I think this parody is going to be lost on many posters.. (and people in general)
Anyway, for stance: 1 ) If this is about breeding for demographics sake is weird and the parody works. 2 ) If this parody is about welfare queens, then I think the parody stinks. Call me old fashioned, but if they're married, I don't care how many kids they have. (I admit, I am old fashioned sometimes. lol)
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Well for me it's a bit too late, you snarky friend, but I try to have a very small carbon footprint (vegetarian, try not to drive the car, ...) but yeah I already made up my mind about never having kids a long time ago (btw why would I have a kid of my own when so many kids need families? Having a biological child in this world is selfish.) , and my wife fully agrees.
Troll thread is troll.
I and my six siblings says hai o/
What's wrong with you people? I seriously need to unsubscribe from the General Off-Topic, there are more retarded threads poping up day by day.
Humans as a species are the among the most adaptive, only being surpassed by simple beings. We evolved as the only existing member of the Homo genus due to our adaptability, socially, physically and most importantly mentally. We can create complex tools so advanced in scope it is impossible for us understand life without them, habitate every continent on Earth, and are so wide spread to be all but immune to most possible extinction events. Whether this course is a good one is another question entirely but Humans absolutely can adapt to global warming.
On a personal level I disagree with the path taken, if a solution to a problem has consequences you seek a better solution not just stop using it and leaving the problem unsolved. We do need better forms of power but cutting back on fossil fuels is hampering our solution to the industry problem, we should seek a new answer instead of just stopping to use this one.